Speaking at the agency's performance review workshop on Friday, CEO Virginia Petersen said her priorities on appointment – more than a year ago – were to achieve a clean audit, improve the grant payment system, improve service delivery and achieve automation.
She added that SASSA has made progress in achieving these priorities, with the biometric system assisting in rooting out fraud.
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On Wednesday, the Worcester centre was fully equipped with a computer room containing 50 computer terminals, educational aids, internet connectivity and training facilities, Suraya Hamdulay, Vodacom’s head of corporate citizenship, said.
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Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH SLE 77 security controller to Net1’s subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services for implementing this service.
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According to the 2011 IT Web-JCSE Skills Survey, two thirds (66%) of companies from a wide range of industries are severely impacted by a shortage of ICT skills. International figures would certainly seem to back up this finding, with evidence that demand for ICT skills is not being met. This is unsurprising, given the way in which ICT has become the platform on which most, if not all, business now runs, with government catching up fast.
The objective of the two day summit that will provide a platform for government and the ICT industry to engage on the broad roadmap for the development, implementation and maintenance of baseline ICT infrastructure and e-governance service in order to:
- Assist the North West Provincial Government to create a road map that will enable it to align current systems and align it to future trends and plans, especially related to the vision 2030 and beyond;
- Engage with stakeholder and share related experiences where governments or companies have planned for similar goals.
- Analyse and predict current and future ICT trends and
- Identify possible partners in the ICT sector and determine the role they would play to assist the province to realise its socio-economic objectives
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